Dictionary entry details
• BRIGHT (adjective)
Meaning:
Emitting or reflecting light readily or in large amounts
Context examples:
the sun was bright and hot / a bright sunlit room
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glimmering; glimmery (shining softly and intermittently)
glistening; glossy; lustrous; sheeny; shining; shiny (reflecting light)
iridescent; nacreous; opalescent; opaline; pearlescent (having a play of lustrous rainbow-like colors)
lurid (shining with an unnatural red glow as of fire seen through smoke)
noctilucent (shining or glowing by night)
self-luminous (having in itself the property of emitting light)
shimmery (glistening tremulously)
silver; silvern; silvery (having the white lustrous sheen of silver)
twinkling (shining intermittently with a sparkling light)
flashing (emitting light in sudden short or intermittent bursts)
ardent (glowing or shining like fire)
agleam; gleaming; nitid (bright with a steady but subdued shining)
aglow; lambent; lucent; luminous (softly bright or radiant)
aglitter; coruscant; fulgid; glinting; glistering; glittering; glittery; scintillant; scintillating; sparkly (having brief brilliant points or flashes of light)
beadlike; beady; buttonlike; buttony (small and round and shiny like a shiny bead or button)
beaming; beamy; effulgent; radiant; refulgent (radiating or as if radiating light)
blazing; blinding; dazzling; fulgent; glaring; glary (shining intensely)
bright as a new penny ((metaphor) shining brightly)
brilliant (full of light; shining intensely)
Attribute:
brightness; brightness level; light; luminance; luminosity; luminousness (the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light)
Antonym:
dull (emitting or reflecting very little light)
Meaning:
Having striking color
Synonyms:
bright; vivid; brilliant
Context examples:
bright dress / brilliant tapestries / a bird with vivid plumage
Similar:
colorful; colourful (having striking color)
Meaning:
Characterized by quickness and ease in learning
Synonyms:
bright; smart
Context examples:
some children are brighter in one subject than another / smart children talk earlier than the average
Similar:
intelligent (having the capacity for thought and reason especially to a high degree)
Meaning:
Having lots of light either natural or artificial
Context examples:
the room was bright and airy / a stage bright with spotlights
Similar:
light (characterized by or emitting light)
Meaning:
Made smooth and bright by or as if by rubbing; reflecting a sheen or glow
Synonyms:
burnished; lustrous; shining; shiny; bright
Context examples:
bright silver candlesticks / a burnished brass knocker / she brushed her hair until it fell in lustrous auburn waves / rows of shining glasses / shiny black patents
Similar:
polished (perfected or made shiny and smooth)
Meaning:
Splendid
Context examples:
the bright stars of stage and screen / a bright moment in history / the bright pageantry of court
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glorious (having or deserving or conferring glory)
Meaning:
Not made dim or less bright
Synonyms:
undimmed; bright
Context examples:
undimmed headlights / surprisingly the curtain started to rise while the houselights were still undimmed
Meaning:
Clear and sharp and ringing
Synonyms:
brilliant; bright
Context examples:
the bright sound of the trumpet section / the brilliant sound of the trumpets
Similar:
reverberant; ringing (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
Meaning:
Characterized by happiness or gladness
Context examples:
bright faces / all the world seems bright and gay
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happy (enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune)
Meaning:
Abounding with sunlight
Synonyms:
sunny; sunshiny; shining; shiny; bright
Context examples:
a bright sunny day / one shining morning / when it is warm and shiny
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clear (free from clouds or mist or haze)
Meaning:
Full or promise
Synonyms:
promising; bright
Context examples:
had a bright future in publishing / the scandal threatened an abrupt end to a promising political career
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auspicious (auguring favorable circumstances and good luck)
• BRIGHT (adverb)
Meaning:
With brightness
Synonyms:
bright; brightly; brilliantly
Context examples:
the stars shone brilliantly / the windows glowed jewel bright
